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How to Lose a Popularity Contest<\/em> is not only a fresh challenge for Sara Waisglass, but also a chance to demonstrate that she is more than her beloved character, Maxine Baker, from Ginny & Georgia<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOne of my biggest fears is that I can only play Maxine Baker, because my energy does bleed into my performances,\u201d the 27-year-old Canadian actress revealed in an interview with Us Weekly<\/em> while promoting her latest movie. \u201cAnd something I was very worried about was, in this movie, is it just going to be Max in a different film?\u201d<\/p>\n Waisglass plays Ellie in Tubi\u2019s How to Lose a Popularity Contest<\/em>. Ellie is a high achiever who reluctantly teams up with her adversary, Nate (played by Chase Hudson), to run his student body president campaign in an attempt to win back their respective ex-partners.<\/p>\n To make matters worse, Nate refers to Ellie as \u201cMax,\u201d which is short for \u201cmaxi pad.\u201d The moniker originated from a humiliating classroom incident years ago. The irony is further enhanced by Waisglass\u2019s admission that she has been called \u201cmaxi pad\u201d on the Ginny & Georgia<\/em> set since season one.<\/p>\n The Degrassi: The Next Generation<\/em> actress claimed she worked \u201creally hard\u201d to identify specific qualities that made her new character distinct, ensuring Ellie felt like a completely different person from her Netflix character.<\/p>\n \u201cI was very intentional about silly things like posture and tone of voice,\u201d she revealed. \u201cSo it was the same energy, just a different execution, I guess. And I\u2019m hoping that that played out right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n